Posted on 12/27/2013 11:24:17 AM PST by honestabe010
In his press conference on December 20th, President Obama urged the House of Representatives to support the Senate’s immigration bill, which passed 68-32 in late June. Among the concerns cited by Americans who oppose reform are that immigrants will take their jobs, drive down wages, increase criminal activity, burden the welfare system, and reshape the cultural dynamic of the country. These concerns are mostly ill-founded. The legitimate concerns have real solutions, and a more open immigration policy will be a net benefit for all Americans...
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- A 2013 study by the American Action Forum states that "immigration reform can raise population growth, labor force growth, and thus growth in Gross Domestic Product (GDP).”
- In 2013 the Bipartisan Policy Center came to similar conclusions. It makes the prediction that current provisions, as included in the Senate Bill, would raise GDP 4.8 percent over twenty years.
- According to the Immigration Policy Center, immigrant males between the ages of 18 and 39 (which constitute the greatest portion of the prison population) are five times less likely to be incarcerated than are natives.
- A 2011 survey by the Pew Research Center revealed that 92 percent of second generation and 96 percent of third generation Hispanics speak English proficiently.
- A 2010 Gallup poll revealed that Hispanics attend church services more often than non-Hispanic whites.
- Since an influx of immigrants means an expansion of the labor supply, many assert that the result will be less jobs and lower wages. However, as asserted by Jason Riley, a member of the Wall Street Journal editorial board, “The number of jobs in the United States is not static. It’s fluid, which is how we want it to be.”
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And resting places are hard to find here in the desert...where sagebrush is almost non-existent and creosote bushes are yards apart.
However, the desert was VERY green on Saturday, the day after the rains... it was awesome! (Green is often not seen here outside the city.)
Everything 2ne1 does is a hit :D
Some of the posts are not from 2NE1 fans and they like it. Did you ever see some of the “reaction” videos online, those are pretty funny
However I am a HUGE 2ne1 fan.
And I would have a hard time relating to those non-fans :P
2NE1 had another song-video out today though, I probably should mention it too. lol.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=didptMJxjpE
Some of the hair is strange.
I dropped the ball...my bad
Should we ping the Undeaders, Darks? Or is there something more fitting?
someone on Youtube says the HAPPY video was actually shot 2 years ago.... could that be true? I have doubts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXZxc8GSXnI
Though I think that was because most of the girls were under the age of 18 then and didn't want to "Under-age" thing running around when they were in Skin Tight Pants.
If the video was made when they were underage then its still kinda the same thing.
lol
Anyway apparently the HAPPY video was made when they visited LA a couple years back.
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I hear a Philly station tried to get Algore to guest-report on the state of glowbull warmthing, but they couldn't get him to join the fun...
NnB was probably driving the truck... ;-)
With NnB at the wheel, GlobAl Gorey-boy doesn’t stand a chance!
I was dodging a truck like that myself, down at the end of my driveway.
But I did drive a truck up into Philly once.
.
Once.
If I were targeting idiots in traffic, by now I’d have quite a few stencils posted on my fuselage. Opportunities are many.
You mean....??? You have NO STENCILS????
(Where did I go wrong?)
But why do they put them on the back window?
Beats me! (She says, after affixing the outline of a frog on the cargo door...)
(Perhaps I can be redeemed by saying that instead of the Peace Sign that was the idea of the decal, the said frog displays a single digit!)
btw-
2NE1 “Crush” album is now #11 on worldwide ITunes chart, I know it was at #6 earlier.
That is pretty amazing
Yeah.
“Frogs for Peace!”
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Who’d believe that?
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